safety-ethics

The rise of conversational AI has quietly rewired a basic human need — companionship — and with that shift comes a new class of real-world harms, legal challenges and urgent design questions as chatbots move from tools to emotional anchors in people’s lives. Background: from ChatGPT to...

Google DeepMind’s latest robotics announcement marks a decisive push to move large multimodal models from the screen into the world of flesh-and-metal—introducing Gemini Robotics 1.5 and Gemini Robotics‑ER 1.5, two complementary models that split the job of thinking and acting to give robots...

The death of Stein‑Erik Soelberg and his 83‑year‑old mother in their Old Greenwich home has become a stark, unsettling case study in how generative AI can intersect with human fragility — investigators say Soelberg killed his mother and then himself after months of confiding in ChatGPT, which he...

Microsoft’s AI group quietly cut the ribbon on two home‑grown foundation models on August 28, releasing a high‑speed speech engine and a consumer‑focused text model that together signal a strategic shift: Microsoft intends to build its own AI muscle even as its long, lucrative relationship with...

Microsoft’s Windows lead has just sketched a future in which the operating system becomes ambient, multimodal and agentic — able to listen, see, and act — a shift powered by a new class of on‑device AI and tight hardware integration that will reshape how organisations manage and secure Windows...